Pierre Joris' Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too.
Arctic Ice / Climate Change / Ecology / Global Warming / Man-made Disaster
by Pierre Joris · Published September 22, 2017
Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: Winter cold extremes linked to high-altitude polar vortex weakening When the strong winds that circle the Arctic slacken, cold polar air can escape and...
Arctic Ice / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Permafrost
by Pierre Joris · Published July 28, 2015 · Last modified July 27, 2015
Here the two concluding sections of J. Hansen et alii‘s paper: Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 ◦C global warming is highly dangerous. You...
Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Environment / Global Warming
by Pierre Joris · Published August 6, 2014
Below the opening paragraphs of an article by BRIAN MERCHANT from motherboard. You can read the full piece here. August 1, 2014 // 02:50 PM EST This week, scientists made a disturbing discovery in the Arctic...
Arctic Ice / Climate Change / Man-made Disaster
by Pierre Joris · Published August 27, 2012 · Last modified August 26, 2012
Below, the opening paras of an excellent article in Think Progress/ Climate Progress. You can read the full piece here. Why The Arctic Sea Ice Death Spiral Matters By Joe Romm on Aug 26, 2012 at...
Arctic Ice / Global Warming / Uncategorized
by Pierre Joris · Published March 13, 2012 · Last modified March 10, 2012
Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 03/09/2012 Greenland ice sheet may melt completely with 1.6 degrees global warming The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be more vulnerable to global...
Air pollution / Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Man-made Disaster / Permafrost / Unnatural Disaster
by Pierre Joris · Published February 8, 2012 · Last modified February 7, 2012
Joint press release by the Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) 02/07/2012 Quantifying climate impacts: new comprehensive model comparison launched Climate change has impacts on...
Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Permafrost
by Pierre Joris · Published December 14, 2011 · Last modified December 13, 2011
via yesterday’s Independent newspaper: Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have...
Air pollution / Arctic Ice / Climate Change / Global Warming
by Pierre Joris · Published July 27, 2011
… Long Buried Pollution as Arctic Ice Melts Trapped toxic chemicals are escaping from melting snow and ice in the Arctic, according to new research Check out the following article from the Scientific American...
Arctic Ice / Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming / Permafrost
by Pierre Joris · Published October 28, 2010
Just in case we’ve forgotten about the Big Weather question while biting our nails worrying about the Republican backlash next week, here’s an article to remind us of the bigger picture out there. And...
Air pollution / Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Carbon dioxide / Climate Change / Environment / Fossil fuel / Global Warming / Greenhouse gas / Uncategorized
by Pierre Joris · Published April 22, 2010
Check out this piece in the New York Times (published a year ago, but still a useful reminder on Earth Day 2010): Why Isn’t the Brain Green? By JON GERTNER Two days after Barack...
Pierre Joris, born in Strasbourg, France in 1946, was raised in Luxembourg. Since age 18, he has moved between Europe, the Maghreb & the US & holds both Luxembourg & American citizenship. He has published over 80 books of poetry, essays, translations & anthologies — most recently Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021) & Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello, both from Contra Mundum Press. In 2020 his two final Paul Celan translations came out: Microliths They Are, Little Stones (Posthumous prose, from CMP) & The Collected Earlier Poetry (FSG). Forthcoming are: Paul Celan’s “Todesfuge” (Small Orange Import, 2023) & Diwan of Exiles: A Pierre Joris Reader (edited with Ariel Reznikoff, 2024). For a full list see the right column on this blog.
In 2011 Litteraria Pragensia, Charles University, Prague, published Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-between, edited by Peter Cockelbergh, with essays on Joris’ work by, among others, Mohammed Bennis, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Fisher, Christine Hume, Robert Kelly, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jennifer Moxley, Jean Portante, Carrie Noland, Alice Notley, Marjorie Perloff & Nicole Peyrafitte (2011).
Other work includes the CD Routes, not Roots (with Munir Beken, oud; Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; Mitch Elrod, guitar; Ta’wil Productions). With Jerome Rothenberg he edited Poems for the Millennium, vol. 1 & 2: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry, and with Habib. Tengour Poems for the Millennium, vol. 3: The University of California Book of North African Literature.
When not on the road, he lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, with his wife, multimedia praticienne Nicole Peyrafitte. A volume of their collaborative work, to be called Domopoetics, will be published in the near future.
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“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader” edited & translated by Pierre Joris
“Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj”
“Paul Celan: The Meridian Final Version”—Drafts—Materials
“Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-Between” edited by Peter Cockelbergh
“The University of California Book of North African Literature”
4×1 : Works by Tristan Tzara, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Pierre Duprey and Habib Tengour
PABLO PICASSO The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems
Poasis (Selected Poems 1986-1999)
Poems for the Millennium 1 & 2
ppppp-Poems Performances Pieces Proses Plays Poetics by Kurt Schwitters
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)” Contra Mundum Press
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello” Contra Mundum Press
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux